Damn shame there is no video footage of the Junk sailing or information on how the split junk rig has worked out in actual sailing conditions. That would have been very interesting as well as useful.
Thanks for your comment Karl. Unfortunately it s difficult to make a video of sailing one's own boat! I can tell you that in actual sailing conditions the split junk rig has worked out very well. I believe that this home-made sail performs about the same as the average bermudan rig up wind - down wind vastly superior (unless the bermudan rig adds a spinnaker). Setting sail, reefing, lowering sail are much easier than with a bermudan rig - all of which mean that the modern cambered junk rig is unequivocally the better of the two as cruising rig, especially single-handed. The split junk is one of the modern variants, I would hesitate to say that it is better than the others, but it is the one I like best. My split junk rig is a copy of the Mk ll sail on a boat called Amiina, and there is a video of three junk rigged boats sailing, one of them is Amiina, one of them is another junk called Emmelene, with Amiina's original split junk sail, and the third is rigged with an earlier type of flat-cut junk sail. Here is the link if you want to have a look: ua-cam.com/video/wFQZAxJpfS8/v-deo.html Also, by the way, the same split junk boat (Emmelene) is featured this month on the home page of the JRA website, you can see some photos and read a bit about it by going to the site: junkrigassociation.org/ Finally, if you want to read up a little on the original split junk rig, which was designed by Slieve McGalliard for his boat Poppy, you can go to the JRA website and click on "Junk Information" then click on "Public Domain Files by..." select "Slieve McGalliard" and you will have access to all of Slieve's work and I suggest you go straight to the last file in that folder, entitled "AYRS Catalyst 37.pdf". That tells something of the design of the rig and how it has worked out and has been compared wit other rigs.
Further to Karl's question - if you go to my website, this page: kenyonz.com/page-15 you can get the information about the junk rig boat in the video, making the sail, sailing etc.
I trail the boat and launch it anywhere. In West Auckland, where I live, I would probably launch at Taipari Strand. In this video I launched in the Uretara River in Katikati, at the bottom of town town there is a ramp.
Great video, thanks 👍
Thanks for your comment encouragement is always appreciated.
Very nice!
Thanks. It was a good little trip.
Loved it ...thanks...
Thanks for your kind comment
Damn shame there is no video footage of the Junk sailing or information on how the split junk rig has worked out in actual sailing conditions. That would have been very interesting as well as useful.
Thanks for your comment Karl. Unfortunately it s difficult to make a video of sailing one's own boat!
I can tell you that in actual sailing conditions the split junk rig has worked out very well. I believe that this home-made sail performs about the same as the average bermudan rig up wind - down wind vastly superior (unless the bermudan rig adds a spinnaker). Setting sail, reefing, lowering sail are much easier than with a bermudan rig - all of which mean that the modern cambered junk rig is unequivocally the better of the two as cruising rig, especially single-handed. The split junk is one of the modern variants, I would hesitate to say that it is better than the others, but it is the one I like best. My split junk rig is a copy of the Mk ll sail on a boat called Amiina, and there is a video of three junk rigged boats sailing, one of them is Amiina, one of them is another junk called Emmelene, with Amiina's original split junk sail, and the third is rigged with an earlier type of flat-cut junk sail. Here is the link if you want to have a look: ua-cam.com/video/wFQZAxJpfS8/v-deo.html
Also, by the way, the same split junk boat (Emmelene) is featured this month on the home page of the JRA website, you can see some photos and read a bit about it by going to the site: junkrigassociation.org/
Finally, if you want to read up a little on the original split junk rig, which was designed by Slieve McGalliard for his boat Poppy, you can go to the JRA website and click on "Junk Information" then click on "Public Domain Files by..." select "Slieve McGalliard" and you will have access to all of Slieve's work and I suggest you go straight to the last file in that folder, entitled "AYRS Catalyst 37.pdf". That tells something of the design of the rig and how it has worked out and has been compared wit other rigs.
Further to Karl's question - if you go to my website, this page: kenyonz.com/page-15 you can get the information about the junk rig boat in the video, making the sail, sailing etc.
Graeme, out of interest where do you launch your boat?
I trail the boat and launch it anywhere. In West Auckland, where I live, I would probably launch at Taipari Strand. In this video I launched in the Uretara River in Katikati, at the bottom of town town there is a ramp.
Nice rig, but that is not junk. It is a gaff rig.
Its a junk. Technically, it is SJR (split junk rig). The other one (the paradox)is a sprit rig.
@@graemekenyon1649 - Ya gotta love people who can't tell the difference between a gaff and a sprit!